Spirituality is about the pursuit of
self-knowledge and self-realization.
There has been an effort to turn this
into a kind of psychological self-knowledge,
an analysis of human emotions as the prime factor.
But Self-knowledge in the sense of the Self
is something much more than that. There is
a modern effort to psychologize spirituality.
On the positive side, this may help to
spiritualize psychology, bringing yoga and
meditation into psychological approaches.
Yet on the negative side, it can confuse
spirituality and yoga with mere human psychology.
It can reduce our spiritual self or soul to the confines
and concerns of the ego and our outer nature
as a mere social or political entity.
